Baseball and bat

A friend in New York had a baby recently and they are mad Yankees fans so I thought I would make their little guy a little bat and ball.
Only problem was my family was hit with ongoing bad health so this was a very slow process that was only finished a week ago. Hopefully it arrives soon enough.
It was based on a caricature pattern for a baseball and bat but I didn't add the caps and faces as I wanted it just to be a bat and ball.
I tried stitching little arrowed red stitches for the ball which I had mixed success with - hopefully they don't think that it is too rubbish.
I also only had light brown in a thicker weight yarn to that of the white so I used an average hook between the two. I think it worked out.
I thought that as so many of my tracking stats come from America as well as Australia (and a few in Europe too) that I should put this up as there may be others interested.
http://www.crochetville.com/community/topic/77577-baseball-buddies-3images/

Olaf

I created Olaf with a free pattern from Amidorable Crochet - http://www.amidorablecrochet.ca/
Jackie makes some absolutely AMAZING crochet creations and I loved making her free Olaf inspired pattern however she had to remove this pattern from her site. I have no confirmation from her as to why but if it is like the story I hear of a Primary School near me who tried to do a Mary Poppins play to raise money for the school but was shot down by Disney.... as they didn't pay for licencing. Then I am tipping Jackie got an email saying "Take it down and we will leave you alone."

She had created all the main characters from Frozen and I had planned to make them all for my daughter to enjoy but sadly Olaf was the only one I could get finished. Luckily for me as a few hours after I had finished it the pattern was gone!

So while you can not make this gorgeous little guy anymore you do need to bookmark her website as she is amazing and is also very generous and shares some of her patterns.
She also has a shop on Etsy you can buy some of her things - https://www.etsy.com/shop/AmidorableCrochet

Baby shoes with a difference

I made these baby shoes for a present. (I have also made two more, one set in green and another in blue - lots of babies in my life at the moment!) I think they are utterly gorgeous and were relatively easy to create - just a little fiddly at points.

You can also add felt to them if you want for the soles but I figured that the babies I was going to be gifting these to would not be walking in them and would wear socks as well so it was unnecessary.

The pattern is a free Ravelry pattern http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/crochet-baby-converse

When I gave them as a gift I stuffed them with tissue paper as without little feet in them they do not look anywhere near as cute as they do filled out.

Owls

I created these owls just as fun projects that I could pick up and do a few stitches and put down again without being annoyed.

They were based on this pattern http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tiny-amigurumi-owls
Except I changed it slightly and added some feet.
I went to Resource Rescue - http://discountcraftsupplies.com.au/ A place semi local to me where they recycle items from industry and business that can be used for craft. It is a fabulous idea. I got some rubber pellets that I used to stuff these little guys so that they weigh a bit more and sit on the shelf nicely - so obviously not safe for little children.
I found the pattern really easy to follow and fit my need of not having much time to crochet at the moment so wanted to have something I could just pick up and put down.
I am giving these little critters away as presents so I hope they are well received.